And in my opinion, there is no pure genre anymore, everything's always subgenred. There's no pure metal, just death metal, power metal, nu metal, alternative metal (my fav), heavy metal, etc, etc. There's a subgenre for every type of music. Except for ska, because, well, not that many people like ska or listen to it... It'll always have a place in my heart though.

At 9/13/08 01:01 PM, TiiBag wrote:
Fuck yes. Nightwish, Dragonland, and Power Quest for the win. Although Nightwish is more symphonic metal, and DL and PQ are power metal, as opposed to plain heavy metal.

Says the dude that listens to pussy synth-metal. Slipknot has really neat instrumentation and complex musical arrangements. I doubt people truly dislike their music, but only don't care for their image.

At 9/13/08 12:58 PM, Guardian-Angel wrote:
There's a subgenre for every type of music. Except for ska, because, well, not that many people like ska or listen to it... It'll always have a place in my heart though.

<3 Reel Big Fish

Wrong. Reggae is the more well known subgenre to ska, followed by Rocksteady. Then if you want to count the different "waves" as a subgenre too.

Hm, now that I think about it, isn't ska a subgenre to reggae? And I thought the waves were just the time periods where they became more popular.

Obviously if I'm not a Metal head I wouldn't be able to distinguish between the sub genres, therefore attempts at revealing my ignorance towards the genre or all for nothing merely because I do not listen to it in the first place. I'm tolerant towards all genres of music HOWEVER I simply dislike metal, it has no appeal to me.

Shut the fuck up and learn to play a fucking instrument. Every song has elements of various genres. A song that conforms to a single genre is inherently flawed, because it shows a lack of range in the artistic talent of the composer.

Is this thread about you trying to see who knows the subgenres of metal?
Like, Nightwish being more symphonic, Korn being crappy alternative, Slipknot being wannabe trash/death and the rest being manly man power metal?
Dont like powermetal, nor alternative metal, i like Death Metal and maybe some progressive..